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Page 2 - Yearly Archives: 2020

  1. June 19, 2020

    Helicobacter May Not Always be Hard to Stomach

    Can it control gluten sensitivity and asthma?

    Helicobacter pylori infection is no laughing matter. Sufferers can look forward to such unpleasant symptoms as chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers, and possibly gastric adenocarcinoma. Only discovered in 1982, H. pylori's pervasive presence, particularly in developing...

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  2. June 12, 2020

    Can Vitamin D be Useful Against COVID-19?

    A study published on May 6th, has produced optimism that vitamin D may help to prevent serious infections of the COVID-19 virus. Researchers from the UK have compiled data on the incidence of COVID-19 infections and correlated it to the blood levels of vitamin D in people from 20 European nations. The results show that as vitamin D serum levels increase, the incidence of infection decreases.(1) ...

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  3. May 16, 2020

    Debugging the Mosquito Crisis

    One of the deadliest species known to man is Aedes aegypti, also known as the Yellow Fever mosquito. This species of mosquito is capable of carrying and spreading diseases such as chikungunya, zika, yellow fever, and dengue fever to more than half of the world's population. These diseases are the cause for millions of deaths every year and have increased substantially in the last 30 years.(1)...

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  4. April 13, 2020

    Enlisting AI for Drug Discovery

    Bacteria are becoming more resistant to drugs while pharmaceutical companies are slowing their antibiotic research. Due to low profits and high time consumption, there are fewer drugs discovered and manufactured by drug companies.(1) Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections...

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  5. March 30, 2020

    Will the new coronavirus go away when the weather warms up?

    This is the question that many are asking, but unfortunately, there is no easy answer. 
    First of all, we have to take a look at why the cold and flu viruses seem to dissipate in the summer months. There are four possible reasons why respiratory viruses are more common in the winter and tend to become less of a problem in the summer.

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  6. March 14, 2020

    Antibiotic Resistance in Food Items

    In the United States, approximately 2.8 million people are infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) every year resulting in billions of dollars in healthcare costs and approximately 35,000 deaths (1,2).

    About 80% of antibiotic use in the United States comes from the agriculture industry, particularly in the husbandry of cattle...

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  7. March 06, 2020

    COVID-19 Sample Collection Kits for Upper Respiratory Tract Specimens

    Due to the recent 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we have
    been getting many inquiries about what type of swabs, media, and kits
    should be used for COVID-19 sample collection prior to testing. Below we
    have a short guide on which COPAN products meet the Centers for Disease
    Control and Prevention (CDC) Interim...

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  8. February 27, 2020

    Is that really pharmaceutical grade cannabis?

    Cannabis has many
    different modes of delivery and applications for use. The most common ways that
    cannabis is used in our society today are: a smokeable, an edible, an oil or
    infused product. According to most market researchers, flower products and
    concentrates are the top sellers, with edibles and cosmetics also representing
    a solid segment of the market.[1]...

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  9. February 21, 2020

    Can filters add or decrease the bacterial count?

    According to the USGS, the Earth's surface is comprised of about 71% water (1); however, only a modicum of this supply is potable. Fortunately, modern marvels of mankind are making this supply increasingly accessible through the desalination of salt water and filtration of contaminated water, to name a few. Unlike salt water, the consumption of contaminated drinking water is a major cause for outbreaks...

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  10. February 14, 2020

    Are Three Heads Better Than Two?

    The new generation of active viable microbial air samplers represent a new approach to maintaining environmental control. The TRIO and the RABS ISOLATOR instruments are made by Orum International and distributed by Hardy Diagnostics.

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  11. February 07, 2020

    Cause for Concern: Emerging Pan-resistant Candida auris

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    photo courtesy of UCSF Health

    Candida auris was first described in 2009 and was first reported in the United States in 2016.(1)  It is a member of a growing group of yeasts that can cause candidiasis, yeast infections that are normally of little consequence, and treatable through a number of anti-fungal...

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  12. February 05, 2020

    CDC Recommends Nasopharyngeal Swabs AND Oropharyngeal Swabs as Suitable for Upper Respiratory Tract Specimens for Investigations of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

    COPAN announces a kit that pairs 3mL of UTM® universal viral transport medium and two FLOQSwabs™: one minitip and one regular flocked swab.


    MURRIETA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 30th...

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  13. January 25, 2020

    Coronavirus Outbreak- What We Know Thus Far

    For the medical community 2020 has arrived with a sinister start. In the midst of Flu season, a new and far more ominous virus has emerged, gripping the world’s attention. We are of course talking about the recent outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan, China with multinational reports emerging. The virus, a “cousin” of the SARS virus that struck in 2003 that caused nearly 8,100 cases, and resulted in 774...

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  14. January 16, 2020

    Hitting Pay Dirt- New Soil-Derived Antibiotics

    Antibiotic resistance has been an emerging critical threat that, according to the CDC, results in more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections in the U.S each year, of which 35,000 are fatal (1).

    To date, most every antibiotic at our disposal has been discovered in the dirt; these compounds exist as natural products that...

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